Beyond Euphrates. Autobiography 1928–1933.

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [xvi], 341, [3]. Green buckram, lettered in gilt to spine with author's gilt facsimile signature to front; untrimmed edges. Top edge stained green. With title-vignette printed in olive-green, double-page sketch map by H. W. Hawes printed on green paper, 52 b/w illus. and wood engraved end-pieces by Reynolds Stone. Index to rear. Dustjacket designed by Frank Quilter [priced 25s net to front flap].

Bottom front corner gently bumped, off-setting to prelims., else Fine.

Part II of the author's autobiography, following on from Traveller's Prelude (1950), in which she described her first journey – a trip through the Alps at the age of two. Beyond Euphrates takes up the story at the start of her Eastern travelogues in 1928. Through letters and snatches of her diary, she portrays life in Baghdad, Damascus and Persia. An intrepid traveller to Turkey and the Middle East at a time when few westerners ventured there, she was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1972.